Interesting track...

[winter123]

This is a storm west of Madagascar. It stalled and restrengthened into a typhoon when it wasn't expected to. They actually zoomed in to show the track

[herasday]

WeatherDummy is impressed. What made it do that, any thoughts or facts? Could it be an isolated "hot spot" in SST's that it keeps drawing energy from so long as it stays inside the boundaries? (purely an uneducated guess there, as you might surmise...LOL) But seriously, if anyone can tell a good reason why it would track that way, or even an "educated" guess, would love to hear it.

Looks almost a perfect spiral.

[winter123]

Storms don't choose where to go, it's just where the winds blew it. If you remember Epsilon of 2005, I think it was similar to that. It missed a front connection that it was supposed to be ripped apart by and the high pressure behind the front cause it to stall. The spiral was a lucky coincidence. That's my best guess anyway

[herasday]

Is it still there?

[winter123]

Near peak... pinhole eye :D

full: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2008_1045Z.jpg

thumb:

[davecarlsen]

I'd hazard a guess that this was maybe partially intentionally done by the agency in charge.

What I mean is that the centre of a tropical cyclone can often be really difficult to pinpoint exactly, so a guess is done. If the storm doesn't appear to be moving much, like this was doing, maybe the meteorologists can have a little fun and make the past history of the storm look cool without actually hurting the integrity of the official track.

Just a guess, mind you...

[Frozen_Signal]

where is this at??

lol

couldnt resist again...

the mets in charge could market thing to kids as a "connect the dots and learn about upper atmos steering currents" at the same time

[winter123]

Well, they didn't make this up. This still had an eye when it was in this area, right up until when it got sheared apart.